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In the Heart of the Country

(1977)
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Stifling in the torpor of colonial South Africa, a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, she dreams of and executes a bloody revenge.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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